SRSeedBurners Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 (edited) I'm not sure who is uglier, him or my baby pigeons. Amazing how they can become so cute though. Here's a short video I got a couple days ago just to show how ugly they are: Edited August 11, 2015 by SterlingSL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdhouse Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 You're terrible!!! I just can't think of chicks as ugly. They certainly have the potential to be ugly at any point after they've gotten old enough to try to rule the roost. Not before then, though. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbersmom Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 LOL neat video Sterling! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murfchck Posted August 12, 2015 Author Share Posted August 12, 2015 The ugly part comes when the feathers are coming in and sticking up all over! Cute but still icky. lol That was a great video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murfchck Posted August 13, 2015 Author Share Posted August 13, 2015 Made it to 299g yesterday, lol. Just wouldn't break 300 darn it. I am only getting up once a night now, this morning's feeding was at 3am. He is growing like a weed in size and unless it is because I see him all the time, his features are not changing much now. Before I could see little things with each feeding, he has however started the stop drop roll. It is cute but it means he is scared. I can't turn the big over head light on during the night because the light leaks out and wakes the Toos up so I have a lamp and I am sure it is casting shadows when I am in there moving around and he isn't sure what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywings Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Try a red light is will be less disturbing to the big white birds and you can see pretty well enough to give some little sounds (contact call) for the baby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murfchck Posted August 13, 2015 Author Share Posted August 13, 2015 I think Kane already thinks my contact call sounds like a too scream! Lol 2 weeks i will be getting dna done! Fingers crossed he is a he. Othetwise i will be moving the s from the she to the end and calling Kanes gender a hes. Also found out today we should be off the pipettes and on to the syringes now. She laughed at me saying i must be tired of standing there feeding him so many pipettes (8-9) when if i used the syringe it would be 2- 35ccs. AND that if i am feeding at 11 or 12 pm, i can wait until 5 or 6am and sleep through the night! I should have asked her about that a week ago! Live and learn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murfchck Posted August 14, 2015 Author Share Posted August 14, 2015 At 326 now (yesterday morning). Took to the syringe pretty good, found some 10cc's brand new at home so until the others get here they will do. That takes some practice to use. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/dZjBH9x-GqjaFupQ7Z31St3U5KxAMuqzCv6uErujM00=w380-h674-no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdhouse Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 what a beautiful baby!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbersmom Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 Really starting to fill out! What a difference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murfchck Posted August 14, 2015 Author Share Posted August 14, 2015 Holy cow, 362 this morning ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRSeedBurners Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 What a little piggy. Our little pigeons are growing like weeds too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murfchck Posted August 15, 2015 Author Share Posted August 15, 2015 This is shocking to me and I see him everyday. August 9th https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wUB-KytDAl_PrClltixumOGpjpQ4s_cY-RmGhYwHnes=w380-h674-no August 14th https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/0_D7splNEUlqzPFwv8tiB9zvRJOXTzkuzLZoVXoKxcM=w380-h674-no That is the same little toy he use curl up with when his eyes were not even open, now the big guy just sits on him! 5 days!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdhouse Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 Wow! I'm really loving this. Thank you for taking all the time to post & everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murfchck Posted August 16, 2015 Author Share Posted August 16, 2015 391 and what a cute bottom!! This was taken yesterday morning, but look at the butt feathers, lol. This morning they were doubled in length. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/DSxLIx3Brdnd6tTlgXbJ6UClGuFK3OH42UFi5DLy5mk=w380-h674-no at about 50cc every 5 hours. He tries so hard to do it himself but gets over excited and falls on his face every time. This picture I just love. I was vacuuming the floor and noticed Pat just looking in the nursery watching Kane so I had to get a picture to show him his soft side! I asked him if was ever going to try and feed Kane and he said no way. It isn't that he doesn't want to but he fears that something will happen and after all my sleepless with him, doesn't want to chance it! But he is a great back seat feeder. I get a lot of isn't that that to much or what is the temp, it needs to be at 106 or my favorite, I think your under his tongue, stop your under his tongue! lol I am not under his tongue, he just can't see but I get that every time! lol https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/kFFbDUiiubz8lZTemitugxdEBSII9g4bYNSICOWz08c=w380-h674-no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywings Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 SWEET love that shot and fun to see the baby growing up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murfchck Posted August 18, 2015 Author Share Posted August 18, 2015 448g this morning! This picture was yesterday, you can really get a look at his foot in this. It isn't as bad as some I have seen, Ray-Ray comes to mind. He didn't even have the nubbins of toes and he did just fine! https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9AI7S-sLg9kGHf2JhQEYZYNknTuf2huhtaqGAo6Z2TY=w380-h674-no Now for the hard part. Time for him to start to socialize but still to young to be around the other birds, not sure how we are going to do this. lol He is getting a lot of tail length now to so his tub will be to small soon also. Pat wants to build him a playpen so he needs to start working on that soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbersmom Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Whoa what a whopper! I was just thinking that in another few days he will be double Timber's weight and Timber is full grown! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neoow Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 This is awesome- thank you for taking the time to post all of these updates and photos. I'm really enjoying watching him grow! I am amazed by macaws. Though not a breed I would necessarily consider owning myself, I always love seeing photos/videos etc of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murfchck Posted August 19, 2015 Author Share Posted August 19, 2015 Look at those butt feathers! https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/gdDn8MAxAxgwaKusbwBNaaVN0CgoQAGDUxV605fFvio=w380-h674-no Here is a not so great picture but it showed his little buddy that he started off with. Look at that size difference! 4 weeks old now. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ibnp3LZOkHbs9mHouYdPXXobxBP4V_sZmFJKXMjTIFk=w380-h674-no I love my greys but somehow these macaws have wormed their way into my heart. Marley is just a goofy ham who I wouldn't trade for the world. She sticks her tongue out at me and stands up very tall, eyes pinning and then crouches very low and yells hello to me. She has that on a repeat cycle. MaryAnn, the mean one who hates women haha, steps up for me and runs up my arm and refuses to step off unless I have the almond ready. She is the last bird that I get out because sometimes I am stuck with her on me until dad gets home. (then I become chop liver) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywings Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 Macaws can be such softies behind that big giant beak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdhouse Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 I thought I was going to be getting one of the small macaws when I was apparently looking for Phenix, as it turned out. ") But if I had had the room, I would have loved to have adopted a Greenwing or Scarlet, maybe. After Phenix, though, I developed a "beak thing" I guess from being savaged so many times. Kura's is the biggest beak I can manage w/o becoming a little skittish anymore. So I don't trust me not to make bad matters worse if one of the big guys got aggressive now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murfchck Posted August 19, 2015 Author Share Posted August 19, 2015 I have to admit i am more afraid of those little beaks than i am the big macaw beaks. 90% of the time you get a warning from a macaw, they don't just reach out and bite like those little ones do who carry around the big bird syndrome! Kane is at 491 this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murfchck Posted August 20, 2015 Author Share Posted August 20, 2015 So I slave and slave being the best servant I can be for these darn birds. I sprout, I steam veggies, I shred raw veggies and put it all together in a very appetizing way. Do I get this reaction out of them? NO! https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ku20MA48E9HDlQpkaXTgFzKOJSZW1w3lq_w1u1JM1HY=w380-h674-no https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/YO4bkKEqLLW4NntVlNhwVlk2b99KDfATLCaYvQ8mObw=w380-h674-no Today was my birthday so Ixta, who every morning for the last month has whistled Happy Birthday, decided today of all days, she was done with that song. Not a peep, nothing! Hubby came home early and he swept, mopped went and got dinner to bbq for us and gave me the night off cooking for the flock and putting them to bed. Okay so I am picky about what they eat so I had to put their bowls together. Sprouts with parrot spice, some brown rice with steamed carrots. He delivered them. I walked by and first saw Ixta's face covered in food, I looked around and Marley was also covered in what looked like spaghetti noodles, Chacho to. Somehow when my back was turned he heated up Chicken tetrazzini for them. lol He said it was a day to celebrate so they needed something really yummy also, oh and the dogs too. lol I feel so unwanted. Bongo wouldn't kiss me tonight and Chacho bit me on the wrist. I just feel the love all around me. Just wait, tomorrow they will need me again and I may have to ignore them! At least, for now anyway, I have Kane. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywings Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 Poor baby, Happy Birthday anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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